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OpenFeint successor OpenKit goes live with 10 developers building ‘truly social’ games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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OpenKit, the open-source platform for adding social features to mobile games, has gone live, with 10 developers using it in their mobile games on iOS and Android.

Started last fall by social game incubator YouWeb chief Peter Relan, OpenKit is the spiritual successor to OpenFeint, a similar social platform mobile games. But Japan’s Gree acquired it for $104 million and shut it down, leaving thousands of developers stranded.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.